They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's Fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdemmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church. | 
